I thought I would pass this along in case any one else wasn't aware of it. I wasn't quite sure where to post this but it doesn't really fit anywhere else.

I spent a couple hours trying to figure out why PDF generated invoices where seemingly without rhyme or reason generating errors when viewing. I first noticed it on large PDFs.. but then it happened on a small one.

Finally after giving up on trying to figure out what was causing it, I decided to look at the symptoms.

I fired up pico and read the source of this huge PDF. Having never looked at one's source I was suprised that it was easy to discern. Scanning a couple of pages something popped right out. Apparently PDF::Create doesn't escape text. One of the items written with string had a single ( causing the parse in Acrobat to die with Error 114. I'm going to shoot a msg to the author. Just thought I might save someone else some frustration.

-Lee

"To be civilized is to deny one's nature."

In reply to A warning on PDF::Create by shotgunefx

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